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Many of the songs fr There are no less than five & twenty songs
given as sung on the commencement of the new year among the Servians. Sha The These songs are called the songs of the queens Pjesme Kralichke). It
is usual for the unmarried girls to assemble in their festival dresses
on the new years day & to choose one from among themselves to whom the title of King
(Kral) is given, & who is invested with the sword of authority. One
becomes the banner-bearer – another is queen par excellence & so forth.
These go round the villages – particularly at Whitsuntide, dancing a
national dance (the Kolo) & singing songs before the houses such songs as they
think appropriate for the inhabitants. M. Fauriel has given some
specimens of such compositions among his Modern Greek poetry which
he calls Chansons de la St. Basile, – but it would appear more
probable that they should be rather called songs of the King (𝛃𝛂𝛔𝛌𝛜𝛖𝜻)
than of the Saint. To all of their songs the burthen of leljo
is attached, and the lines are repeated thrice as in the following
specimen.

He who owns this palais (house) U ovoga doma
He who owns this palace, helpo! Ovde nama Kaju
Here there is a maiden
Here there is a maiden, leljo!
Leljo Young & yet a virgin
Young & yet a virgin
Young & yet a virgin, leljo
Give her then a husband.

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